Qualla: Botallack https://qualla.com/botallack en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Botallack https://qualla.com/botallack Botallack: Introduction https://qualla.com/botallack/ Talek lived here, or someone did, who left a name behind. Botallack in Cornish means Talek's dwelling, and the dwelling has been a village for a thousand years or more, strung along the lane that runs between St Just and Pendeen. The village is tiny: a few hundred residents, a manor house, a chapel, a couple of farms. But for two generations of British television viewers, the lanes of Botallack are something else entirely. They are Nampara. They are where Ross Poldark rides home.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-wp/gbgv-botallack-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Botallack: The Lane to Nampara https://qualla.com/botallack/ When the BBC produced the original Poldark in 1975, the producers needed a Cornish manor house that looked the part: stone-walled, slate-roofed, austere, weather-beaten, set among rough fields above the sea. They found Manor Farm in Botallack, and they kept coming back. Manor Far...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-wp/gbgv-botallack-the-lane-to-nampara.mp3 0:06 2 full Botallack: Tin Country https://qualla.com/botallack/ Botallack sits squarely in the old tin and copper belt, and the village exists because of the mines on the cliffs below it. The Botallack Mine, with its famous Crowns engine houses, is a short walk to the north along the coast path. Inland and east, the workings of Geevor and Lev...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-wp/gbgv-botallack-tin-country.mp3 0:06 3 full Botallack: The Hiltons https://qualla.com/botallack/ Roger Hilton came to Cornwall in the 1950s and ended up in Botallack, one of a generation of British abstract painters drawn to the light and the loneliness of the Penwith coast. Born in 1911, trained at the Slade where he won the Orpen Prize in 1930, Hilton was a difficult man a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-wp/gbgv-botallack-the-hiltons.mp3 0:06 4 full Botallack: Lae Maen Veor https://qualla.com/botallack/ The headland to the northwest of the village carries an older name. Lae Maen Veor in Cornish means the great stone ledge, and that is what it is: a flat-topped granite promontory thrusting into the Atlantic, with the open sea on three sides. Locals still call it Botallack Head. B...

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